churme

churme (plural churmes)

1. Obsolete form of chirm.
   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     The churmne of a thousand taunts and reproaches.

   • 1854, William Barnes, Philological Grammar:

     To forbid a churme or uproar.

• “churme”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.